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Last week, hundreds lined up at Van Nuys and Los Angeles City Hall to protest the city’s budget proposal that would lay off 1,647 city employees and eliminate 1,076 vacant positions in an effort to close a nearly $1 billion budget gap for the 2025-26 fiscal year. 

April in Review 

City of LA Applications:

• Executive Directive 1 (ED1): 12 ADM (+16 Pre-Application Reviews, or PAR)

• Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC): 1 applications and 6 pre-application reviews (2 appeals)

• Appeals: 13

• Conditional-Use Beverage (CUB) Permits: 17

2025 Wildfire Projects

Find newly filed permits in the Pacific Palisades with ATC’s keyword search. Simply enter "2025 wildfire project" under City of LA Permit case type or “wildfire” under the Planning case type to see all permits related to rebuilding properties affected by the fires. Recent examples:

• 700 Radcliffe Ave, ADM-2025-2324-CATEX: Fire rebuild major remodel SFD grading and retaining wall in support of the structure

• 536 Bienveneda Ave, DIR-2025-678-CDP-MEL-HCA: SB 9 two-unit development for the construction of 2 SFDs and ADU in the single permit jurisdiction area and R1-1 zone

Highlighted Applications

City of LA

• 20957 Community St, ADM-2025-1725-PMUL-HCA: Urban Lot Split Pursuant to SB9

• 222 S Hope St, ADM-2025-2182-OVR: Early Start Permit to lay foundation for a three-story addition to the existing three-story Broad Art Museum above an existing three-story parking garage in the Bunker Hill Specific Plan

• 321 Douglas St, ENV-2025-2090-EAF: 8-story TOC multifamily rental project, 67-units with 7 stories for residential purposes over 2 stories of parking

• 14123 Oxnard St, ZA-2025-1989-ZV: Tenant improvement & interior remodel of existing 2,940 sf. auto repair building, change of use from manufacturing to auto repair garage with spray/paint booth to legalize existing use

Week Ahead

May 7 | West LA Area Planning Commission

• 52 1-4 Market St, APCW-2024-5236-SPPE-SPPC-CDP-CUB-WDI-ZV: Project consists of a 908 sf addition to an existing two-story, 2,603 sf duplex with two (2) guest rooms, the conversion of two (2) existing dwelling units to artist-in-residences, the change of use of a portion of the ground floor into a restaurant, and the construction of a colonnade (arcade) within the public right-of-way, resulting in a lot developed with a two-story, 3,511 sqf mixed use structure with a roof deck comprised of two (2) guest rooms, two (2) artist-in-residences(joint living and work quarters), and a 555 sf restaurant providing 267 sf of indoor Service Floor area and 283 sf of outdoor Service Floor area within the public right-of-way; and a colonnade (arcade) within the public right-of-way, maintaining three (3) parking spaces on-site.

• 60 1-4 East Market Street, APCW-2024-5238-SPPE-SPPC-CDP-CUB-WDI-ZV: The Project consists of a 919 sf addition to an existing two-story, 2,612 sf duplex with two (2) guest rooms, the conversion of two (2) existing dwelling units to artist-in-residences, the change of use of a portion of the ground floor into a restaurant, and the construction of a colonnade (arcade) within the public right-of-way, resulting in a lot developed with a two-story, 3,531 sf mixed use structure with a roof deck comprised of two (2) guest rooms, two (2) artist-in-residences(joint living and work quarters), and a 560 sf restaurant providing 272 sf of indoor Service Floor area and 288 sf of outdoor Service Floor area within the public right-of-way; and a colonnade (arcade) within the public right-of-way, maintaining three (3) parking spaces on-site.

May 8 | LA Citywide Area Planning Commission

• 3851–3855 South Grand Ave, DIR-2023-5190-TOC-HCA-1A: Decision on appeal from USC of a new five-story, 65-foot, one-inch height, mixed-use development with 12 residential dwelling units (1 ELI). The Project will provide approximately 12,616 sf of floor area, of which 723 sf will be for retail space and will have a FAR of 2.1:1. The Project proposes six non-residential automobile parking spaces.

• 15134 S Vermont Ave, CPC-2017-1014-CU-ZAA-SPR: The Prologis Vermont and Redondo Project (Project) includes the construction of a one-story, 53-foot tall, 340,298 sf warehouse/manufacturing/high-cube/warehouse/distribution center, including a 25,000 sf mezzanine and up to 40,000 sf of incidental office uses. The Project also includes a total of 194 automobile surface parking spaces, 36 dock high truck loading positions, and surface parking for up to 71 truck trailers.

• 13475–13485 West Beach Ave, CPC-2024-5389-DB-CU3-HCA: Demolition of a one-story commercial building for the construction of a new seven story mixed-use development. The development will be located within the jurisdiction of the City of Los Angeles and Culver City. On the City of Los Angeles portion of the site proposes 64 dwelling units (16 VLI) and will include 833 sf of retail space. The Project will encompass a floor area of 69,269 sf and a building height of 76 feet and 6 inches. The Project will also provide 39 vehicular parking spaces (38 residential and one commercial) and 72 bicycle spaces. In total, the mixed-use development in its entirety proposes 79 dwelling units of which 21 units will be reserved for as affordable units, 2,723 sf of retail space, encompasses a floor area of 90,640 sf, and provides 57 vehicular parking spaces and 96 bicycle parking spaces.

• 5416 Carlton Way, CPC-2024-914-DB-SPPC-VHCA: Demolition of seven existing residential buildings and accessory uses, inclusive of a 16-unit apartment building, a four-unit apartment building, three single family dwellings, and a duplex building, the maintenance of an existing eight-unit apartment building, and the construction, use, and maintenance of a new 131-unit apartment building, for a total of 139 units, on an approximately 37,688.3 sf (0.87 acre) site within Subarea A of the Vermont/Western Station Neighborhood Area Plan (SNAP) Specific Plan.

May 7 | Santa Monica Planning Commission

• Update and Discussion on Santa Monica Blvd Safety Study Preliminary Analysis and Recommendations

• Update and Discussion about the Phase 3a Layers Survey and Virtual Education Session (VES) 4 that were released to the public on April 8th, 2025 for the Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project

• 1923 La Mesa, 24ENT-0103, -0104, Variance and Waiver; Consideration of Compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act: Variance and Waiver to allow a two-story, 375 sf addition to the rear of an existing single-unit dwelling in the Single-Unit Residential (R1) zoning district. The proposed Variance request is to allow the addition to exceed the 28-foot building height limit as measured from Segmented Average Natural Grade (SANG), and the Waiver request is to waive the minimum upper-story stepback requirement for the addition. Staff Report.